Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes VII

Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes VII (800-867) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 837 to 843, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Antonios I and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Methodios.

Biography
Ioannes was born in 800 to the Iconoclast House of Monocharzanios. In 837 he was elected as the Patriarch of Constantinople, and he intensified the persecution of the Iconodules, those who remained loyal to mainstream Orthodox Christianity. In 843 he was deposed by one of his own female relatives, which helped to end Iconoclasm. He died in 867.